How is it not trivial. You don't allow them to connect personal devices to the company network. If you feel you need to provide WiFi, then set up a guest network and you use the same access controls for company assets that you have for someone connecting via the Internet.
A question I get nearly every time I make a Dr appointment. "And why are you coming to see Dr zzzzzz" No, I'll leave my desk and use my cell phone when I make my Dr appointments. My health concerns are not my coworkers business.
We've now got warrantless wiretaps, indefinite detainment, we have to submit to a rapiscan to travel long distances
You missed sneak and peek warrants and administrative subpoenas. And don't forget the FISA court, National Security Letters, and off shore prisons that are not US land constitutionally, but sure would be if Cuba invaded.
For that matter, never use a debit card linked to your bank account - ask your bank for an ATM-only card and send back the debit card that looks like a credit card.
I tried this with my credit union a while back. I tried to pull money out of an ATM only to find that my ATM/Debit card was expired. I never use debit cards (for the reasons you pointed out), and infrequently use ATMs. Next business day I went to the CU and got the card replaced with an ATM only card with no expiration. Then 3 months later they replaced it with another ATM/Debit card (with expiration). When I complained to customer circus that I specifically told them I did not want a debit card because of the expiration date, I was told that my only recourse was to complain to the CU president, because they were no longer issuing ATM only cards. I chose to change credit unions instead.
Exactly how many high school students have you actually met that knew what they wanted to do for the rest of their life at age 15?
I did, well, at 16 anyway. Drafting was my choice of occupation. Then I took a class my sophomore year of highschool and found out that it was too detail oriented in ways that don't suit my particular form of OCD, or maybe it was just my fine motor skills and poor handwriting. If it had been architecture I might have stuck with it. I most likely would have if it had been a decade or two later when we would have had CAD.
I changed courses from there, literally, and started taking accounting courses thinking that I might become a CPA. I found it rather tedious. I didn't like it well enough to do it for the rest of my life. But I did like it enough to consider minoring in accounting in college and since I write business software I use the book keeping concepts fairly regularly.
Then as a senior we got computers and I took a basic programming class. From that point on I KNEW that I'd be developing software.
Having the option to select different paths, within guidelines, let me find out as much about what I didn't want to do as what I did.
Public highschools with a singular focus on college prep is bad for society. Not everyone can, or should, go to college. I also took Power Mechanics (small engines: Briggs & Stratton, etc) in highschool and another engine rebuild course in college. Had developing software not been a good fit for me, I might have become a mechanic. Looking back now, had I gone that route I would have taken VoTech in highschool. Spent the equivalent of my college tuition on tools. Had a less sedentary occupation and the associated heath conditions. Would likely be self employed and earning about the same. And would never have needed to worry about being off-shored.
We shouldn't be closing off paths for kids at an age when they should be experiencing different things to see what is the best career for them.
The funny thing is, if both participants are paid and it is filmed, then it is entirely legal again.
Damn, she was so close to having the perfect business model. It was filmed and she got paid. She should have kicked back a 'performance fee' to her clients. Then she could have called herself an adult movie producer and filed it on her taxes.
Currently it is being bought from Sweden and France. Ericsson and Alcaltel-Lucent are building the 4g networks. But with the high costs of rolling out a new LTE network, Huawei could easily get in the market with vendor financing. One carrier specifically, Clearwire, since they need funding and are targeting TDD-LTE, would be a prime candidate for Huawei to get their foot in the door.
Neither. Candidates don't have power. The people who can contribute enough to a political campaign to set agendas have the power. If fuel prices are being raised to affect the election, it is being done by candidate 'friendly' organizations to support their own agenda. More likely, outside of California, fuel prices have gone up since most states have recently left the extreme heat of the summer and are now looking towards winter, driving up demand for home heating oil. Here in the Midwest gasoline prices have been stable, but diesel has jump $0.25 a gallon in the last 5 days. Coinciding fairly nicely with the news reports of snow in Colorado and North Dakota.
Other countries tend to have higher gas prices than the USA because of taxes levied to support various social programs.
This is bollocks, please stop repeating it.
You're guilty of a little miss-information of your own. The original poster was partially correct that higher fuel prices in other countries is the result of higher taxes. I don't know that any of those higher taxes go to social programs.
In your case, 37.5 cents per liter * 3.79 = $1.42 per US gallon for taxes. At $1.02 USD per $1 AUD, currency conversion is insignificant. (although Wikipedia says that Australia taxes fuel at "A$0.7188 per litre for petrol and ultra-low sulphur diesel".) Is your 37.5 incorrect, or does that other 34.5 go somewhere else?
In the US, they just take 100% of the money to pay for roads from taxes (or debt, which will eventually be take from taxes).
I prefer fuel taxes to income taxes as they work on consumption
In the US the Federal government taxes a gallon of fuel at $0.18 for gasoline and $0.24 for diesel. States range anywhere from $0.04 in Florida and $0.353 in California for gasoline and $0.04 in Florida and $.0.412 in North Carolina for diesel. So at our highest rates we're looking at $0.535 for gasoline and $0.652 for diesel, per US gallon. Those taxes are used for roads. In addition, other taxes (income, sales, property tax levies) are used as well to fund road projects. So we have a usage based tax as well as other ways of funding road improvements.
Haven't had much luck growing tomatoes in this terrible soil in Alabama. It's too alkaline. I got decent results once with a bucket filled with potting soil and some plant food, but it also gets very hot here and they need a LOT of water. The soil in my yard is very hard rocky clay.
Mulch your leaves or get some sawdust. Not only will it raise the acidity (lower the PH), it will loosen the soil. Sand will also help with the clay and improve drainage. This is good for strawberries too.
And the reason I'm putting this to you is this: you can buy a turbodiesel VW for less than the Impreza cost, and reasonably expect 70mpg out of it in real world driving conditions. And, around here at least, diesel is less expensive than gasoline.
I guess you need to define where 'around here' is. Are you talking Imperial gallons? None of VW's US TDI cars are rated at 70mpg. My Jetta does a consistent 37mpg. It dropped to 35 during the unusually hot weather we have had recently. Athough I could improve it to around 40 or 41mpg by lowering my speed to 60 mph, I primarily drive it on the interstate on my daily commute where driving less than 70mph encourages hard core tailgaters.
I would also point out that only for a brief period this summer diesel was less than gasoline. Probably for the first time in over a decade in middle US. That's not to say more diesel cars shouldn't be available in the US. If for no other reason than soy-diesel is a much better alternative fuel than ethanol. Personally I think US car retailers have completely missed to boat by not offering small diesel pickups like the Ranger, S10, or Tacoma equipped with an engine like VW's 1.9 TDI.
I believe GP is referring to the fact that CL directly profited from the sex industry, by charging for listings in their adult-only section.
Ironically, originally CL didn't profit from the adult ads because they didn't charge for them. Then various jurisdictions started legal actions to make CL enforce their morality; and CL started charging so they could pay staff to censor the ads. Then, OMG, CL is making money from adult ads. So CL simply closed down that category and now all those ads run unmolested over on Backpage.
Also, when you charge nothing, you invite a lot of spam posts.
This must vary a lot from region to region, because I can't remember the last time I saw spam on Craigslist. If an ad doesn't belong, flag it. (I do wish they would require a reason why you're flagging an ad though) The closest I have seen is people pushing their ads back to the top every day or so.
If I were going to change anything it would probably be to add sub categories. It would make it easier to find a specific type of ad. But it would also make it more difficult to just browse. Sometimes I'll browse some of the forsale groups just to see what odd things people will try to sell.
That may be, but there is still something wrong with a story line that has an underage girl (child) having sex with a man more than twice her age. It's pretty pervy and even without the deep dive into religion it turned me off on Stephenson's books. They can simply make her 3 years older and avoid the whole problem.
Since the US doesn't have diplomatic relations with Iran, I doubt we have an extradition treaty either. So as long as those citizens stay within the borders of the US, Iran can basically go pound sand because there is no process.
I imagine that there are plenty of midwestern large-scale farmers who are millionaires
It depends on how you define millionaire. Around here you need a 1000 or 2000 acres minimum to earn a decent living. And land prices are running close to $3000 an acre. So you are starting out with $3-6 million in land. Then you throw in several $100k in equipment and it sure looks like you're living high on the hog. Unfortunately many of the independent farmers are mortgaged to within an inch of their life. Farming is risky and should pay well; some times it does, sometimes Mother Nature doesn't cooperate and you lose your life savings.
The retailer can do it and sell it as used, without warranty, but who would buy it?
The retailer can restore the factory image and sell it as an 'open box' with the remaining warranty. That's what Microcenter did with this Toshiba that I am using right now. I saved about $200 on a $1200 laptop.
I had to reverse the charges with my credit card company and ceased dealing with them.
A transaction with NewEgg is the only time in 20+ years that I have had to dispute a charge. It was over a defective motherboard that was burning up CPUs. When VISA asked why they shouldn't charge-back, NewEgg couldn't even give an intelligent response.
I haven't shopped with them in 10 years and have never had a problem matching their 'deals'.
You assume that if they didn't build their plants in Tn and Ga, that they would have produced those cars overseas. That's not likely the case because import tariffs make it cost prohibitive. They aren't building here to provide US jobs. At worst they would have opened the plants in Canada or Mexico so they could take advantage of NAFTA. But costs aren't much cheaper in Canada and VW has already felt the cost of poor quality control in their Mexican plant. Having formerly worked for a company that relocated production to Mexico, the difference in culture provides huge obstacles to integrating them with the rest of your company. Quality and on-time delivery are very hard to maintain for the first several years.
For some counter examples, take a look at the controversy with Kansas STAR bonds and cities in Johnson County poaching businesses from the Missouri side of the metro. You could also look at the issues of Independence MO with Bass Pro after they gave incentives to have a new store located within their city limits. Bass Pro forced local communities to compete, locating in the one with the best incentive package. Walmart is notorious for the same thing in large metropolitan areas. Raytown Mo experienced it when Walmart threatened to rebuild their Raytown store in Kansas City (just a couple miles away from the proposed Raytown site) if they didn't get the incentives they wanted. It will take 22 years of sales tax from the new store to pay off the bonds that the city backed. And the city paid for the parking lot. Not asphalt like most, 100% concrete. You could also look at how datacenter sites are auctioned to the highest bidder.
We don't benefit from more 'American jobs' when incentives are used to simply move a business a few miles from one side of a line to another.
If management (and possibly staff) move to Ireland with their families they'll be giving up things they take for granted at the moment.
The decision makers won't move. They'll set up a skeleton headquarters that is barely more than a PO Box and an 'executive' assistant. Then they'll stay where they are and find other tax dodges for their personal income. Like $1 salaries with huge benefit packages.
The jobs that will get moved are production staff. The current holders of those jobs will either have the choice to move or find a new job. In Ireland they will hire enough replacements to convince the governments that they have an ongoing permanent presence in the country.
The richer you are, the more dependent you are on government, as a larger portion of your wealth came about because government made it possible for you to be wealthy.
A very interesting thesis. Unfortunately too many libertarian mods today, and I don't have any points at the moment.
Could Bill Gates have acquired all his wealth outside of America? How about Steve Jobs? Would Facebook have been the success it has been if it had launched in a tax friendly country? Surely Google could have launched anywhere in the world, but they didn't.
Had the FCC said yes, you can bet AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc. would be eyeing vairous bits and pieces of the satellite band to purchase - it's that much cheaper.
Not likely. Telcos already have better spectrum. 700/800 to get the broad coverage and 1900 to get higher capacity. And then there's Clearwire up in 2500 with the bandwidth capacity of a train. 1600 will work, but it's mediocre at best. The noise that wireless companies are making is because it's expensive to refarm existing spectrum. You have get all those annoying customers to replace their handsets.
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You usually have to repeat yourself several times before finally loudly yelling "Hemorrhoids!"
Yeah, and my doctor keeps telling me he can't do anything about my boss.
It is not trivial but it is also not magic.
How is it not trivial. You don't allow them to connect personal devices to the company network. If you feel you need to provide WiFi, then set up a guest network and you use the same access controls for company assets that you have for someone connecting via the Internet.
A question I get nearly every time I make a Dr appointment. "And why are you coming to see Dr zzzzzz" No, I'll leave my desk and use my cell phone when I make my Dr appointments. My health concerns are not my coworkers business.
We've now got warrantless wiretaps, indefinite detainment, we have to submit to a rapiscan to travel long distances
You missed sneak and peek warrants and administrative subpoenas. And don't forget the FISA court, National Security Letters, and off shore prisons that are not US land constitutionally, but sure would be if Cuba invaded.
For that matter, never use a debit card linked to your bank account - ask your bank for an ATM-only card and send back the debit card that looks like a credit card.
I tried this with my credit union a while back. I tried to pull money out of an ATM only to find that my ATM/Debit card was expired. I never use debit cards (for the reasons you pointed out), and infrequently use ATMs. Next business day I went to the CU and got the card replaced with an ATM only card with no expiration. Then 3 months later they replaced it with another ATM/Debit card (with expiration). When I complained to customer circus that I specifically told them I did not want a debit card because of the expiration date, I was told that my only recourse was to complain to the CU president, because they were no longer issuing ATM only cards. I chose to change credit unions instead.
Exactly how many high school students have you actually met that knew what they wanted to do for the rest of their life at age 15?
I did, well, at 16 anyway. Drafting was my choice of occupation. Then I took a class my sophomore year of highschool and found out that it was too detail oriented in ways that don't suit my particular form of OCD, or maybe it was just my fine motor skills and poor handwriting. If it had been architecture I might have stuck with it. I most likely would have if it had been a decade or two later when we would have had CAD.
I changed courses from there, literally, and started taking accounting courses thinking that I might become a CPA. I found it rather tedious. I didn't like it well enough to do it for the rest of my life. But I did like it enough to consider minoring in accounting in college and since I write business software I use the book keeping concepts fairly regularly.
Then as a senior we got computers and I took a basic programming class. From that point on I KNEW that I'd be developing software.
Having the option to select different paths, within guidelines, let me find out as much about what I didn't want to do as what I did.
Public highschools with a singular focus on college prep is bad for society. Not everyone can, or should, go to college. I also took Power Mechanics (small engines: Briggs & Stratton, etc) in highschool and another engine rebuild course in college. Had developing software not been a good fit for me, I might have become a mechanic. Looking back now, had I gone that route I would have taken VoTech in highschool. Spent the equivalent of my college tuition on tools. Had a less sedentary occupation and the associated heath conditions. Would likely be self employed and earning about the same. And would never have needed to worry about being off-shored.
We shouldn't be closing off paths for kids at an age when they should be experiencing different things to see what is the best career for them.
The funny thing is, if both participants are paid and it is filmed, then it is entirely legal again.
Damn, she was so close to having the perfect business model. It was filmed and she got paid. She should have kicked back a 'performance fee' to her clients. Then she could have called herself an adult movie producer and filed it on her taxes.
Currently you are buying most of it from Sweden.
Currently it is being bought from Sweden and France. Ericsson and Alcaltel-Lucent are building the 4g networks. But with the high costs of rolling out a new LTE network, Huawei could easily get in the market with vendor financing. One carrier specifically, Clearwire, since they need funding and are targeting TDD-LTE, would be a prime candidate for Huawei to get their foot in the door.
which candidate has that much power.
Neither. Candidates don't have power. The people who can contribute enough to a political campaign to set agendas have the power. If fuel prices are being raised to affect the election, it is being done by candidate 'friendly' organizations to support their own agenda. More likely, outside of California, fuel prices have gone up since most states have recently left the extreme heat of the summer and are now looking towards winter, driving up demand for home heating oil. Here in the Midwest gasoline prices have been stable, but diesel has jump $0.25 a gallon in the last 5 days. Coinciding fairly nicely with the news reports of snow in Colorado and North Dakota.
This is bollocks, please stop repeating it.
You're guilty of a little miss-information of your own. The original poster was partially correct that higher fuel prices in other countries is the result of higher taxes. I don't know that any of those higher taxes go to social programs.
In your case, 37.5 cents per liter * 3.79 = $1.42 per US gallon for taxes. At $1.02 USD per $1 AUD, currency conversion is insignificant.
(although Wikipedia says that Australia taxes fuel at "A$0.7188 per litre for petrol and ultra-low sulphur diesel".) Is your 37.5 incorrect, or does that other 34.5 go somewhere else?
In the US, they just take 100% of the money to pay for roads from taxes (or debt, which will eventually be take from taxes).
I prefer fuel taxes to income taxes as they work on consumption
In the US the Federal government taxes a gallon of fuel at $0.18 for gasoline and $0.24 for diesel. States range anywhere from $0.04 in Florida and $0.353 in California for gasoline and $0.04 in Florida and $.0.412 in North Carolina for diesel. So at our highest rates we're looking at $0.535 for gasoline and $0.652 for diesel, per US gallon. Those taxes are used for roads. In addition, other taxes (income, sales, property tax levies) are used as well to fund road projects. So we have a usage based tax as well as other ways of funding road improvements.
This is also why things like hothouse tomatoes taste better.
Hot house tomatoes taste better than what? Recycled cardboard?
Haven't had much luck growing tomatoes in this terrible soil in Alabama. It's too alkaline. I got decent results once with a bucket filled with potting soil and some plant food, but it also gets very hot here and they need a LOT of water. The soil in my yard is very hard rocky clay.
Mulch your leaves or get some sawdust. Not only will it raise the acidity (lower the PH), it will loosen the soil. Sand will also help with the clay and improve drainage. This is good for strawberries too.
And the reason I'm putting this to you is this: you can buy a turbodiesel VW for less than the Impreza cost, and reasonably expect 70mpg out of it in real world driving conditions. And, around here at least, diesel is less expensive than gasoline.
I guess you need to define where 'around here' is. Are you talking Imperial gallons? None of VW's US TDI cars are rated at 70mpg. My Jetta does a consistent 37mpg. It dropped to 35 during the unusually hot weather we have had recently. Athough I could improve it to around 40 or 41mpg by lowering my speed to 60 mph, I primarily drive it on the interstate on my daily commute where driving less than 70mph encourages hard core tailgaters.
I would also point out that only for a brief period this summer diesel was less than gasoline. Probably for the first time in over a decade in middle US. That's not to say more diesel cars shouldn't be available in the US. If for no other reason than soy-diesel is a much better alternative fuel than ethanol. Personally I think US car retailers have completely missed to boat by not offering small diesel pickups like the Ranger, S10, or Tacoma equipped with an engine like VW's 1.9 TDI.
I believe GP is referring to the fact that CL directly profited from the sex industry, by charging for listings in their adult-only section.
Ironically, originally CL didn't profit from the adult ads because they didn't charge for them. Then various jurisdictions started legal actions to make CL enforce their morality; and CL started charging so they could pay staff to censor the ads. Then, OMG, CL is making money from adult ads. So CL simply closed down that category and now all those ads run unmolested over on Backpage.
Also, when you charge nothing, you invite a lot of spam posts.
This must vary a lot from region to region, because I can't remember the last time I saw spam on Craigslist. If an ad doesn't belong, flag it. (I do wish they would require a reason why you're flagging an ad though) The closest I have seen is people pushing their ads back to the top every day or so.
If I were going to change anything it would probably be to add sub categories. It would make it easier to find a specific type of ad. But it would also make it more difficult to just browse. Sometimes I'll browse some of the forsale groups just to see what odd things people will try to sell.
America is fucked up about sex.
That may be, but there is still something wrong with a story line that has an underage girl (child) having sex with a man more than twice her age. It's pretty pervy and even without the deep dive into religion it turned me off on Stephenson's books. They can simply make her 3 years older and avoid the whole problem.
Since the US doesn't have diplomatic relations with Iran, I doubt we have an extradition treaty either. So as long as those citizens stay within the borders of the US, Iran can basically go pound sand because there is no process.
I imagine that there are plenty of midwestern large-scale farmers who are millionaires
It depends on how you define millionaire. Around here you need a 1000 or 2000 acres minimum to earn a decent living. And land prices are running close to $3000 an acre. So you are starting out with $3-6 million in land. Then you throw in several $100k in equipment and it sure looks like you're living high on the hog. Unfortunately many of the independent farmers are mortgaged to within an inch of their life. Farming is risky and should pay well; some times it does, sometimes Mother Nature doesn't cooperate and you lose your life savings.
The retailer can do it and sell it as used, without warranty, but who would buy it?
The retailer can restore the factory image and sell it as an 'open box' with the remaining warranty. That's what Microcenter did with this Toshiba that I am using right now. I saved about $200 on a $1200 laptop.
I had to reverse the charges with my credit card company and ceased dealing with them.
A transaction with NewEgg is the only time in 20+ years that I have had to dispute a charge. It was over a defective motherboard that was burning up CPUs. When VISA asked why they shouldn't charge-back, NewEgg couldn't even give an intelligent response.
I haven't shopped with them in 10 years and have never had a problem matching their 'deals'.
You assume that if they didn't build their plants in Tn and Ga, that they would have produced those cars overseas. That's not likely the case because import tariffs make it cost prohibitive. They aren't building here to provide US jobs. At worst they would have opened the plants in Canada or Mexico so they could take advantage of NAFTA. But costs aren't much cheaper in Canada and VW has already felt the cost of poor quality control in their Mexican plant. Having formerly worked for a company that relocated production to Mexico, the difference in culture provides huge obstacles to integrating them with the rest of your company. Quality and on-time delivery are very hard to maintain for the first several years.
For some counter examples, take a look at the controversy with Kansas STAR bonds and cities in Johnson County poaching businesses from the Missouri side of the metro. You could also look at the issues of Independence MO with Bass Pro after they gave incentives to have a new store located within their city limits. Bass Pro forced local communities to compete, locating in the one with the best incentive package. Walmart is notorious for the same thing in large metropolitan areas. Raytown Mo experienced it when Walmart threatened to rebuild their Raytown store in Kansas City (just a couple miles away from the proposed Raytown site) if they didn't get the incentives they wanted. It will take 22 years of sales tax from the new store to pay off the bonds that the city backed. And the city paid for the parking lot. Not asphalt like most, 100% concrete. You could also look at how datacenter sites are auctioned to the highest bidder.
We don't benefit from more 'American jobs' when incentives are used to simply move a business a few miles from one side of a line to another.
If management (and possibly staff) move to Ireland with their families they'll be giving up things they take for granted at the moment.
The decision makers won't move. They'll set up a skeleton headquarters that is barely more than a PO Box and an 'executive' assistant. Then they'll stay where they are and find other tax dodges for their personal income. Like $1 salaries with huge benefit packages.
The jobs that will get moved are production staff. The current holders of those jobs will either have the choice to move or find a new job. In Ireland they will hire enough replacements to convince the governments that they have an ongoing permanent presence in the country.
The richer you are, the more dependent you are on government, as a larger portion of your wealth came about because government made it possible for you to be wealthy.
A very interesting thesis. Unfortunately too many libertarian mods today, and I don't have any points at the moment.
Could Bill Gates have acquired all his wealth outside of America? How about Steve Jobs? Would Facebook have been the success it has been if it had launched in a tax friendly country? Surely Google could have launched anywhere in the world, but they didn't.
What I'd love to see is a PTT app available on any android phone.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ctialive/story/sprint-planning-direct-connect-android-app-promises-ptt-renaissance/2012-05-09
Not ANY Android phone, but any SPRINT Android.
Had the FCC said yes, you can bet AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc. would be eyeing vairous bits and pieces of the satellite band to purchase - it's that much cheaper.
Not likely. Telcos already have better spectrum. 700/800 to get the broad coverage and 1900 to get higher capacity. And then there's Clearwire up in 2500 with the bandwidth capacity of a train. 1600 will work, but it's mediocre at best. The noise that wireless companies are making is because it's expensive to refarm existing spectrum. You have get all those annoying customers to replace their handsets.